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  • From: "Angela Broach" <Angela.Broach@sas.com>
  • To: "Healthy soil and sustainable growing" <livingontheland@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [Livingontheland] A few questions from a new gardener
  • Date: Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:20:27 -0500

I live in NC and have rather acidic clay soil. The azaelas do great. We
have a lot of red cedar and a few large pine trees that shade quite a bit of
our yard. The areas that aren't completely shaded (and even a few that are)
are having a problem with ground ivy taking over everything. I don't mind
most weeds and I am certainly not looking for an immaculate lawn, but this
ivy is incredibly unattractive when it is mowed and when I put out some weed
blocking fabric with mulch over it around some of my other plants, the ground
ivy just grew on top of the fabric. Does anyone know if reducing the acidity
of the soil would help with ground ivy? Would adding lime to the soil hurt a
fig tree? We have one that is doing great and I really don't want to do
anything that could harm it.

My other question is about raised beds. I am moving some raised beds that I
had to closer to the house. This is a fairly humid area and we do have some
mold issues. How far from the house should raised beds be in order to
prevent mold? I want to get the beds as close to the house as possible
because of space considerations but I don't want to damage the house either.
We have hardiplank siding which is fairly tough stuff, but I don't want to
abuse it.

Thanks for any advise,
Angela



  • [Livingontheland] A few questions from a new gardener, Angela Broach, 03/30/2006

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